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too. right? >> well, let me just tell you before. this is important, he's had one surgery. more to follow. now we've talked to mom this afternoon. and i want to warn you what she told you might be too graphic for some of you. >> he was laying on the floor and mommy am i going to die? i am like no, you're not going die. >> these pictures taken by the mother of the 10-year-old who remains in the hospital. melody says her son had gone next door to play video games with a friend. according to police, the attack occurred as both were running up the stairs. >> the right side of the face the dog got him here and across his ear, half his ear off this, part of the face is gone. >> she claims both dog as tacked police say only one appears to be involved. the dog was taken by animal
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control and will be held there pending a hearing wh. arriving at the hoax where it incident occur wed saw the second dog looking out of the window. approaching the home the owner took off with her son in the car. hours later that family taped a sign on the door it's been horrible we've been in communication with our neighbors. our prayer goes out to them. lease confirmed the boys friend was also hurt when his own dog turned on him as he tried to help hunter this, neighbor saw the second boy being treated. >> i saw them put hem them in the ambulance. looked like he had a bandage that. is all i saw. >> people here say there are many dogs on the street but nothing like this has ever happened before. >> just horrible. you wonder, think of what if? it could have been my child. >> mom also told us that before this happened she was going to take little hunter are to a wrestling match they
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had tickets last evening. now tomorrow, animal control will be here to continue with this investigation. i'm live in antioch, abc 7 news. >> a father from livermore did not enter a plea on charges he killed his infant son. sheriff detectives believe he shook the 6-month-old so hard the boy suffered brain damage last month. the baby died august 1. police say he tried to escape on thursday he remains in jail this engs police are in support of a support fund she was shot and killed last month when aning the door at her uncle's house. two of her friends and their grandmother were wounded. if you'd like to help you can drop off a check to oakland city center or any wells fargo.
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>> a woman facing charges for impersonating a nurse at one of the bay area's biggest hospitals. the sheriff deputy as rested crystal cook friday. investigators believe cook wore scrubs and a phony id badge. nofdz yet cook entered secured areas or treated patients. other hospitals have been asked if they've seen cook. >> commuters were able to catch trains thanks to a judge's ruling. the judge ordered a cooling off but there are no scheduled talks. there is a possibility employees could strike. >> asiana's daily flight from south korea to san francisco international airport received a new number starting today. the carrier retired flight
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214. airlines often retire after a disaster. three people died as a result. asiana plans to give $10,000 to every survivor on booshd the flight. the money going cover ofts. it doesn't prevent passengers from still suing the carrier. >> former first lady and secretary of state hillary clinton is getting a high honor and there's tl has been speculation about her political ambitions. we're live tonight with the story. she got a huge welcome there. >> she received a medal citing what the organization called her immense politicianments as a lawyer skb strides made for women. take a look now. the former first lady waublged into the room and was
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interrupted by applause. clinton said the law belongs to the people, we the people she said and chose to focus on the historic 1965 voting rights act dealt a blow by the u.s. supreme court. :onsays that is going make it harder for people accessing the polls. >> there are problems we can't fix but preserving fairness in voting is one we can,j];t÷ should. as secretary of state i saw other countries take steps to strength their process there's is no reason we cannot do the same near america. >> would you think of the speech? >> i thought it was terrific. >> it's important to bring important madders to us. and voting rights become an
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important issue. >> her international per suspect jiff valuable. she's watched democrat says around the world. people look to us as an example. unfortunately in many cases, people have greater rights to go out and vote than we could, here. series of speeches she says she plans to give. someone called this a slow flirtation with the president six she's not announced her candidacy but people who listen to everything hillary clinton has to say wonder about her presidential ambitions. we'll talk to people on both sides of the aisle coming up at 6:00. >> attorney general holder spoke to the american bar association announcing a major shift in the way prosecutors
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will targ yitd many low-level drug offenders today. many state and federal laws require long prison sentences for people conviktd of certain crimes. >> wide spread incarceration is ineffective and unsustainable imposes an economic burden totalling $80 billion in 2010. it come was human and moral costs that are impossible to calculate. >> part of the plan includes letting prosecutors decide whether small amounts of drugs should be listed in court filings. >> tonight police have not released the name of a woman during the search for a missing oakland resident this, came after a search for this woman, sandra coke of oakland.
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she'd vanished august 4 last seen with this man police say alana is a violent sex offender with a long criminal histry. coke's family saying quote our hearts are heavy to think she may not be coming home to us, we've been sustained by unbelievable outpouring of love, concern and prayers from all of you. >> a 43-year-old driver of a party bus is facing driving under the influence and manslaughter charges. the zint happened along interstate 280 last night. the passenger riding in the front was killed. the driver of the bus walked away but was later detained by officers after spotting him about four hours later. >> he's not cooperating and
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not saying anything. so about this time he has been transported to get checked out. >> chp says the bus was a converted van configured to carry nine passengers. not in use at the time of the crash. >> california is establishing another first tonight. in this case, four transgender students. a bill allowing transgender stud dwronts use any bathroom or locker room desired. the bill ensures they can take part in all programs and activity that's match gender identity. >> the concept is making sure all california children have a level playing field and can participate in programs in a way that is comfortable for them and is true to who they are.
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>> the law is the first of its kind in the country. >> and still to come latest salary of a uc chancellor setting off shock waves, coming up. >> fans behaving badly. giants fan behind the banana toss that set of cries of foul ball and racism. explaining what his real motivation was. >> a sandhya patel. live on the roof of the kgotv broadcast center, summer heat back in the forecast. >> thank you. plus efforts to save post office in berkeley may be
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investigators spent the day looking for a cause of the nir sal lano county that broke
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out just after 5:00. neighbors heard explosions. the flames spread quickly. fire destroyed three structures and several vehicles. firefighters stopped the fire before it head to any other buildings and nobody was hurt. >> sheriff deputies in marin county are investigating the death of a hunter shot and killed saturday afternoon. the 58-year-old was riding in a car when authorities say he was shot. deputies still investigating what happened. there have been no arrests in this case. >> an unusual incident at the giants ballpark lit up social media today with anger, accusations and lots of raw emotion. orioles center fielder adam jones who is black said someone threw a banana at him at last night's game with the giants. vic lee is in the newsroom with developing detail autos well, cheryl adam jones has almost 130,000 twitter followers and tweeted about
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what happened last night that. generated a lot of discussion. now in, europe throwing bananas is apparently a big problem in professional soccer there are many african player buzz here in the states you rarely hear of something terrible like that happening. particularly in a place like san francisco so when jones tweeted it, it became a big story. adam jones hit a three-run homer. ben juarez is a baseball coach at antioch high school sitting just right of the right field foul pole where he had a good view of jones. >> i saw something float on to the field center field, then, he picked ut up maybe two minutes later dunked it over the stand. >> the season ticket holder from antioch says he doesn't know what it was that landed on the field but says jones looked irritated. >> the look, he shrug aid little bit, looked disgruntelled said something to a teammate.
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>> the african american center fielder said it was a banana tweeted i want to thank whatever person through threw that banana towards my direction in center field. wait to show your class. that tweet generated lots more in another tweet said i love how some people are defending the ak business someone today. shows how you really are are, also, all good with me. giants say they investigated the incident but unfortunately, we have been unable to identify the person responsible. late today the mercury news reported a man contacted the newspaper saying he threw it on the field. and that he did it because he was upset at the giants loss and it was not directed at jones. the paper quoted himj- waits not racially motivated in hind sight i wish i didn't
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do it. i apologize, i'm very sorry. he says he grabbed a banana off a catering cart. now, as for giants they say anyone caught throwing objects can be ejected from the ballpark. >> dumb and dangerous. thank you very much. experts dgs agreeing about a supposed link between autism and what is being called a cancer gene. published reports touting the gene p 10 saying mutations cause a number of cancers and 10% of kids with mutations in the genes have autism. others say because changes in p 10 do not always lead to cancer calling it a cancer gene is inflammatory. >> state supreme court giving a victory to parents of some diabetic students ruling it's okay for trained but unlicensed school employees to give inslins slin shots if the nurse is not available.
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a lower kurt ruled only licensed professionals can do that. the court said it's a reality most insulin shots are done by nonlicensed lay people. >> kim will cox will earn $354,000 in addition to a car allowance. the package drew strong objections from governor brown and lieutenant governor newsom. making 9% mer than his predecessor. uc president says part will dprum private funds. he says uc needs to pay rate. >> ticket master wail lou scalpers to sell tickets alock side regular sized seats. wall street journal said ticket master had little choice. big shows often sell out
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within minutes.kj9 so looks ticket master is taking aapproaches. if you can't beat them, join them. >> there is some encouraging news about the cost of filling up your car. >> about time. >> yes. >> gasoline prices easing a bit here in the bay area. the survey says it's still, that is 15 cents less than a year ago. that is a good news, what about bad. >> days below 3s sdz like a a thing of the past. highest average price just shy of $4. september 10th seems to be the
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day with the blow out. a blog says that is the data now, others are jumping on board. the next iphone expected to have a5w similar design to current iphone 5 but at a fingerprint reader for security, faster internet and improved camera. if you plan to trade up you need to do it sooner than later. surveys show those who traded in can expect to receive $72 more, have you heard about tax holidays given for back to school shop something 18 states offer no sales tax days for those shopping back to school supplies and clothing. most have occurred but in deals today. i have a list of tax holiday stakes check it out.
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tell officials about it. and also, next year perhaps you can save money when traveling. all next week i'll be looking at deals and bargains. watch next week. >> couldn't get through good enough, i know. >> sand patel looking for sun. >> abg4&ght breeds and temperatures have responded with a weaker marine influence this afternoon. checking out live doppler 7, what it looks like from that perspective. the clouds not that wide spread. we're going to keep influence limited meaning the warming trend continues heading into the next couple days. seven degrees warmer in san jose. oakland, up six.d?c[l@3ju fild,,
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here is a beautiful view with sunny skies from san jose. 63 in san francisco. 71 oakland. it's 80 in los gatos. now, from our mount tamalpais camera, still have a shallow layer of clouds down towards sausalito. and here are the temperatures. feeling warmth now in fairfield. antioch made it up to 90s today. livermore, 88 degrees, beautiful view from our camera. we do have a small craft advisory up. in case you're thinking about heading out tomorrow, warmer pattern with inland highs hovering around 90 or above that. a weak system is passing
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through. we're going to see temperatures trending higher as werxk?d head into the time period. limited cloud cover and plin a little warmer foremost of the bay area for tuesday so inching closer are to average for this time of the year. this time around, only patches of low clouds. so not wide spread. and as we check out your high temperatures for tuesday, in the south bay, 86 morgan hill. 81 cupertino. san jess yeah basking in the sun. 78 mountain view. on the coast 66 half moon bay. sunset district 65. 68 downtown san francisco. south city. north bay, up to 83 in santa rosa. mid-80s in sonoma.
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east bay fshlgs 4 oakland. 77 union city. sheer where you'll feel the heat. 89 walnut creek. checking out the accu-weather forecast, notice temperatures trend higher wednesday. low 90s inland. cooler friday. a return of warmth into next week feeling like summer. by monday, warm inland. mid 90s inland. into tomorrow morning a better chance to see them with a limb knit yiteded amount of low clouds. get into a dark spot and between midnight and 3:00 a.m. will be the best chance for seeing the meteor showers. i'm abc 7 meteorologist sandhya patel. chance to check it out.
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>> just ahead a disaster warning system under repair so what is being done? >> imagine traveling in a tube from san francisco to los angeles in half an hour. taking a look at the concept elan musk says would be like floating on
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westbound albany traffic is just inching along. it's -- they're shut down because of an accident there. four war cars in two middle lanes working on the story for you at sky 7 on the way. we're going try to get information for you. we'll have more for you on abc 7 news.com. >> repair work got underway today last week the county discovered five ought of eight
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sirens are broken officials say repair work should be finished by next september. alerts and telephone warnings will be used in the event of
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coming up at 6:00 teachers, teaching rather teachers a look at expansion of science education program andit could not have come at a better time. >> and keeping mosquitoes away. whether a fan can protect you from those flying pest autos we'll see you tonight at 6:00. >> now a panel will hear an appeal from berkeley's mayor to save the city's main post office. the mayor and others want to
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block the postal servicegxt)x fm selling the building to a developer. the post office is on the national register of historic places. the mayor has until september 3 people have been camped outside in the hopes of saving it. >> diamonds proved to be a girl's best friend. >> california lottery says she won the top prize in the brand new scratcher game skauled diamond millionaire. >> she bought the ticket in pleasanton. the retailer will receive a $5,000 bonus. >> there it s oh, boy. that is going to do it for us. we're jealous. congratulations. >> bee grudgingly. >> all right. >> thanks for joining us.
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a many. this is "world news." tonight, shock wave in the fight against crime. should police be allowed to stop and frisk like this? is it potentially racist or is it keeping the streets safe? swallowed up. video shows florida resort being consumed by a giant sinkhole. we show you how families and a babe narrowly escaped. and pet project. new research could change the way you travel with your pet tonight. good evening to all of you. we begin tonight with a big question about the safety of america's streets and what police say they need to keep law and order. the tactic is called stop and frisk.

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